The Steam Deck is not going to get yearly iterations a la the iPhone, in keeping with one in all its designers, although a Steam Deck 2 will probably occur in some unspecified time in the future.
In an interview with Critiques.org (noticed by The Verge) Steam Deck designer Lawrence Yang stated, “We’re not going to do a bump yearly. There’s no motive to try this.” He elaborated that he felt it was unfair to prospects to supply solely incremental enhancements every year. He stated, “…we actually do need to look ahead to a generational leap in compute with out sacrificing battery life earlier than we ship the true second technology of Steam Deck.”
This reply matches prior statements Valve has made. On a number of events final yr, Valve staff said {that a} extra highly effective Steam Deck can be years away–late 2025 on the earliest. Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais defined that a part of the Steam Deck model (a minimum of for now) is that each mannequin can play the identical video games; Valve would not need to change that till Steam Deck efficiency will get a major increase with out dropping battery life. Later within the interview, Yang did observe that Valve is engaged on a Steam Deck successor.
The Steam Deck did get an improve final yr within the type of the Steam Deck OLED, which improves battery life and the show high quality. The Steam Deck’s recognition has resulted in a wide range of opponents, together with the Asus ROG Ally, which acquired SteamOS help in August.
